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Chap. 494: To provide for the payment of an indemnity to the British Government to compensate the dependents of Edwin Tucker, a British subject, alleged to have been killed by a United States Army ambulance in Colon, Panama. Chapter 494 45 Stat. 489 1928-05-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 489 Chapter 494.— Joint Resolution To provide for the payment of an indemnity to the British Government to compensate the dependents of Edwin Tucker, a British subject, alleged to have been killed by a United States Army ambulance in Colon, Panama.
May 3, 1928.[[H. J. Res. 148](/us/bill/70/hjres/148).][[Pub. Res. No. 36](/us/bill/70/pubres/36).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the British Government.Payment to, directed as indemnity for death of Edwin Tucker.Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the British Government, as a matter of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor, the sum of $2,500 as full indemnity for the death of Edwin Tucker, a British subject alleged to have been killed by a United States Army ambulance in Colon, Panama, on or about December 6, 1924, as set forth in the message of the President of December 17, 1927, and printed as Senate Document Numbered 20, Seventieth Congress, first session; and there is hereby authorized Appropriation authorized.*Post,* p. 911.to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum to carry out the purpose of this Act.
Approved, May 3, 1928.
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